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TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, OCTOBER 18, 1903.
$12.50
HANDSOME CHASE
LEATHER COUCH
You would be surprised
to know how many of
your friends have paid
the Big Price Boys $20
for these Couches. They
have spring edge and smooth surface (not tufted like
shown in cut), and will not catch dust.
SPECIAL THIS
WEEK AT
S12.50
! IF EVERYBODY knew how much cheaper J j
ACORN
STOVES AND
RANGES
Uver a million m use. q
America's oldest make.
The standard for 78 years.
Best cast and steel Range
made. Costs more, but
lasts twice as long and
saves fuel enough to pay
for dtself.
BUY ONLY AN ACORN
I'fci'i .ff
$25,0
00 SAVED PORTLAND FURNITURE
THROUGH NO RENT PRICE
BUY ERS
S? $25,000
Yes, $25,000! It's a large sum of money, yet at the end of this year the people of Portland those who have bought furniture will actually be richer, by not less
than $25,000, because of the fact that we opened-a large, first-class furniture store on the East Side at the beginning of the year, and have been selling furniture at
prices no one imagined it could be sold, at prices which no firm could sell that pays rent. Rents from one-half of our large new four-story building; covering one
fourth of a city block, pay interest and taxes on the whole investment, leaving us, rent free, space which on the West Side would cost us over $1000 a month. It
puts us in a class entirely by ourselves. Others cannot possibly meet our prices because
Others Pay Rent, We Collect Rent on Half our own sanding Who Can Sell the Cheapest?
It was particularly fortunate for the people of Portland that we were able to develop an economical plan by which we could sell them furniture from 20 to 40 per
cent lower than others, and also a most fortunate stroke for us. Our business is growing by leaps and bounds. September ran 35 per cent
ahead of our best premium month's sales, and for the year we will do four times the business anticipated
Do You Think Anything but Actual, Bona Fide Low Prices Would Have Brought the People to the East Side
to a New and Unknown Firm to Buy Their Furniture?
This Handsome $35.00 China
Closet Special $27.00
Full quartered oak. Colonial style, would be an ornament to any
dining-room. Big Price Boys would price it at $45. Our regu
lar Xo-Rent Price is $35.00.
Special $27.00
Hall Hatrack and Um
brella Stand Spec'l $1.20
Stands 5 feet 6 inches high and is just the thing j-ou need for the
office or home during the rainy season.
A Great Bargain Special $1.20
Big' Special Sale on Kitchen Furnitu
fA This
1C Week
These Specials
for This Week
Only
Xo phone orders taken.
Deliver at convenience.
TERMS CASH at these prices.
H, I Kitchen Table g
Jf V 1 With Drawer IB
1 I
$130
Cabinet $6.50
' Treasure $3i5 j ' 8
Drop
ble $1.75
Finished $2.00
25 Per Cent Off This Week on
the Celebrated Booster Cabinet
Running for $25.00 to $37.50
We hesitated a lone time before in
cltidiug these, but finnlly decided to
make he big kitchen special complete.
earns Foster' I
I Did you over honr of such an offer Sleep on it HO nights, romp on it with the chil
dren, put it tn any test you will. At the end of HO days, wo will take it ba;k again
and return your money immediately, if your satisfaction is not complete. Just notify
us that the mattress has boon a disappointment and without question quibble or
argument, the mattress will be taken away and your money returned at once.
O X 'i
Wonts
p jfricil
These Mattresses Are Made of Purest
Springy Cotton and by the Won
derful Web Process
8165-85
CORNER
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Special machinery crosses aud re-crosses the filling cotton fibers into a continuous
web. Forty of these buoyant webs laid one upon another make a layer, and nine of
these layers make a Stearns & Poster Mattress. To make sntsh a mattress except, by
their special rnaf-tamery would be absolutely impossible. Did you notice their two
page ad. in the Saturday Evening Post, October 3 1
Prices $10.50, $13.50 and $16.00
r
Telephone Orders Not Taken on Specials
Terms Cash or C. O. D. Only One of
Each Article to Each Person
DAMAGING EVIDENCE GIVEN
IOIIMI.K AtiKNT OK UM) COM
PANY TKSTiriKS.
'William Kerr and Mrs. Lewis Tell
of Operation of Port Orford
Lumber Company.
Further ci Idcijre of tli alleged
fraudulent operations of ihe Pacific
Furniture l.unner Company whs
presented by the Gnvrmment In the
Federal Court yesterday in the Curry
County land-fraud case. Testimony of
a damaging r!urrt'r was elicited for
the prosecution from William Kerr,
who for years served a land agent for
the Los Angeles Company in its oper
ation at Port Orford. Corroborative
evidence of the same character was
furnished by Mra. Mary C Lewis, of
los Ana:elea.
Mrs. Iewls testified that herself and
huaband m-ere Induced to invest In
about $no worth of stock In the Los
.ngtlcs ''ompany. belna: sent subse
quently to Oregon on the representa
tion that Mr. Twis would be employed
by tli company as an engineer at J3
a da". Tiie further- inducement, wit
ness testified, was held out that 11
would be possible for the couple to
acquire some valuable timber land In
Orejron which could be sold at a good
profit.
Mrs. Lewis said she and her husband
after spending tive weeks in the vicin
ity of Port Orfor.l. discovered that the
transaction by which the land was to
be acquired was questionable and in
cluded the understanding that It should
be turned over to the company. Al
though she had settled on a quarter
section of the land, she frave up all
attempts to complete proof and re
turned to Los Angeles with her hus
band, where they demanded and re
ceived the amount of money they had
invested In the company.
At noon yesterday the court ad
journed until 10 o'clock tomorrow
morning- when the Government will re
sume the introduction of testimony.
Will-: VOn PARDOX
Kffort lo Release Thaddeus Potter
on (Grounds of lllnc.
An effort will be made to secure
the pardon of ThaddeuB S. Potter, con
victed Oregon land-fraud operator.
For several days Mra. Potter has been
circulating a petition asking that the
sentence of the court be aet aside on
the gTounds that the defendant Is dan
gerously ill. Armed with this peti
tion, Mrs. Potter has gone to San
Francisco personaUy to intercede with
Francis J. Ileney In the interest of her
husband's pardon.
Potter formerly was employed In the
law office of K. P. Mays, and it was
while there he became implicated In
the land frauds, lie was Indicted on a
charge of conspiracy, tried and con
victed and sentenced to serve six
months in the County Jail and to pay
a tine of $500. Ills case is nd"w on
appeal.
RELATION OF ART TREATED
In Mis Locke's Third I-ectnre Mo
fairs Arc Explained.
Miss Josephine C. T.ocke yesterday
delivered the third lecture in the series
now being given by her in the Art
Museum.
The lecture dealt with the relation
of art to the religion of the early
Christian era. and the symbolism in
which the art of that time had its
origin.
A portion of the lecture was devot
ed to an explanation of the mosaics
of Venice, Ravenna, Palermo and
Home.
and Panama have a disputed boundary
question on their hands which Lula
Anderson, who was president of the
"Washington Central American Peace
Conference, and who is now in this city,
will make an effort to have settled as
aoon as possible. Rival fruit companies
operating between the east coast of the
United States and Costa Rica also are
anxious for a settlement of the question
because large banana plantations are
located there. The controversy as
been pending for a long time and the
State , Department, as well as others
interested, are anxious to have tho
boundary line correctly delimitated.
Settle Boundary Line Dispute.
WASHINGTON, Oct 17. Costa Ricm
Nebraska Academy Burned.
LINCOLN'. Neb., Oct. 17. The Ne
braska Military Academy, located three
miles west of this city, was destroyed
by fire this morning. -Tho school was
established this Fall by B. D. Hayward
and the building ereet.-d for .the West
ern Normal College waa equipped for the
venture. The loss is estimated at $100.
000, with $20,000 insurance. Sixty-five
boys were enrolled and these were taken
from the building in safety.
Tomorrow and Tuesday, positively
the last days for discount on East
Side gas bills. Don't forget to . read
Gaa Tips.
Hinimin
Allen Co.
pianos. The Wiley
SENSATIONAL PRICE CUTTING OF TEN
INCH UP-TO-DATE DISC RECORDS. ALSO
SOME TALKING MACHINES
Commencing Tuesday morning (not tomorrow, but Tnesday morning), ft 9 o'clock, we shall
close ont 4000 perfect 10-inch disc records for all makes of talking machines.
The established retail value of these records is 60 cents each. They have never been sold
for less.
To have quick action, Graves Music Co. will sell a lot of 4000 records, hundreds of different
and most desirable titles, for less than what small dealers pay for them in large quantities.
They will be sold in lots of not less than six to a buyer at 40 cents each or $2.40 a half-dozen.
This is the first and only chance ever presented in Portland to buy records at less than wholesale
prices. Think of it 60-cent records at one-third off. Graves Music Co., Ill Fourth street.
A large number of more or less used talking machines have been received by us of late to
ward payment of talking machines of higher grade and price.
There are 26 machines all told. We are going to sell them at half price. We will make
payments to suit any reasonable buyer. , Remember the- place. Graves Music Co., now at 111
Fourth street. The finest, best-appointed general music emporium west of Chicago.
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